[buckles96]

any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

after noticing the front tire threads wear completely uneven, I sent in my 68 xr7 for an alignment. however after several attempts now my mechanic can not get the camber in. he says it keeps reading 2 degrees off.

any suggestions.

 

[doctordesoto]

2 degrees pos or 2 deg neg---one side or both----what specs are you going for
doctordesoto

 

[ahunt191]

Check out this article in Car Craft 9/2007.

http://www.carcraft.com/techarticles/ccrp_0610_1967_ford_mustang_alignment_tricks/index.html

Your shock towers could be completely out of whack.

How do your lower control arm bushings look? If they have never been changed, you will have a pretty tough time getting the camber right. Here is a picture of mine after I pulled it out.

What camber are you attempting to get?

 

[buckles96]

The lower control arms are pretty new. They were changed out 2 years ago. Got the parts from Mustang Unlimited.

And the alignment reading is coming out 2 degrees negative to answer doctordesoto question.

Hope this helps. Will be looking at the shock towers once I am back at the shop.

 

[doctordesoto]

take it to a different allignment shop !!! if you have 2 deg neg , a real allignment guy would put shims between the shock tower and the upper control arm if the lower ecentric is out of stroke--you shoud be 1/2 to 1 deg neg on the camber---3 to 5 deg of pos caster and i lke a touch of toe out--late model crown vic spec if the guy nees a car to go by
doctordesoto

 

[70Houndstooth]

I also have new lower control arms from MU on my 70. Last summer I had a front allignment, from a old school guy.
My allignment is at the end of the limit, but in spec.
Even with new parts, the quality of the part may not be OEM.
So it may just be the lower arm itself.

 

[351CJ HELLCAT]

Just a thought, but I took my front "caster bars" or whatever the 2 horizontal bars that point in a "V" to a machine shop and had an 1" of thread added to each side at the ends where the rubber grommet and large nut go. The alignment place told me to do this to get the camber right for the front tires since they were wider then the factory oem setup. This is what i was told and the car's tires never wore uneven after that. Good luck.